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#28: See those mountains in the distance?
We're deleting them.
Nathan Brown
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#27: Disaster report
So, it is finally here, sort of but not really: the Nintendo Switch (OLED Model). Catchy! I’m sitting down to write this the morning after the unveiling of what, in the spirit of not-E3, must henceforth be known as the Switch not-Pro, and I am still quite
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#26: Talk to me, you'll understand
I’ve learned far more about games by talking to the people that make them than I ever have sat at home with a controller in my hands.
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#25: Denial of service
It seems faintly ludicrous that the runaway market leader should be this inhospitable to so many developers.
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#24: Consolidation prizes
Big company gets bigger and is worth more money, and the already rich grow somehow richer still.
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#23: Chloe battles the robot dinosaurs
When you hear a familiar voice in a game, it jars you — particularly when it’s one you associate with a disco-dancing unicorn.
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#22: The final lap of the race to zero
“I’ll wait for a sale” was a common refrain throughout the 2010s. Now we're going a step further: “I’ll wait til it’s free.”
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#21: The new normal
One of the few advantages of not-E3 is that this year I am not sat here the week after the show, back at my desk and miserable, willing the jetlag away and, in particular, struggling through the traditional post-show headcold. Lockdowns have changed the way we think about
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#20: Plumbing trouble
Before we get into today’s edition of Hit Points, some brief housekeeping. With not-E3 done and dusted, I’m going to experiment with the format a bit, and drop down to three editions per week for a spell. There are a few reasons for this: we’re probably
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#19: And if you *are* paying for the product... you're still the product
To Facebook, the web’s premier destination for ham-faced uncles and old school bullies who need somewhere to sell broken garden furniture and do racism. When Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg positioned VR as the social arena of the future, saying: “Mobile is the platform of today,
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#18: Heroes and villains
Well, last night was a bit better, wasn’t it. Nice to wrap things up on a positive note with a lovely showing from Nintendo. I’m a little short of time today because the youngest woke up with a slight fever so is home for the day, and needs
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#17: Expecting to fly
Why are you all complaining? Nothing happened yesterday! Those days are the best. You can wander away from the convention center for a bit, maybe see what one of the most glamorous cities on the planet has to offer beyond the fading carpets of the show floor. Go up to